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St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-02
BUKDEITE'S CHILDHOOD.

what the Humorist Knows About the
E'irst and Second Years of His Life.
The arrival of new boy in the little
village of Greenesborough, Greene
County, Pennsylvania, on the SOth OF
July, 1874, interested me about rs little
as any event that ever occurred on the
banks of the Monongahela. Other viii
layers came to inquire after the boy
and his pretty mother; they decided
whom the baby looked like, and what
his name should be; they handled him
and guessed at his weight; they petted
and praised him and loved him. But ]
and the baby didn't seem to get on.
At first sight of him l broke into pitt
full walls, and brandishcd my fists as
though | had met my mortal enemy.
As the boy grew older, and opportuni-
ties for annoying him presented them
selves more frequently, [ prosecuted
him the more. l thrust my thumb into
his eyes; | kicked the blankets off his
sleeping form of nights; often had
fallen downstairs with him, had not
my sister Mary protected him. l have
tdgeted and struggled until l thrust
concealed pins i'll the person of that in
nocent, shrieking child. As the years
of his boyhood came and went, more
than all other people in the world led
that boy into mischief and got him
into trouble; and l never got over
this singular antipathy. | have
been unkind to him where | would
be tenderly merciful to stranger; l
have been pitiless with him where [
was gracious to my enemies. l have
been the cause of all his mistakes and
misdeeds; thousand times | have been
a stumblingblock in his way, and then
| have smitten him because he Stun
bled over me. Often and often | Won
der how bright and happy and good
that boys life might have been had he
never met me.
The boy went West with my parents
in 1916. Family traditions state that
he wept aloud all the way from Green's
borough to Cincinnati. Possibly he
was heart-brokcn at leaving his native
State, to which he returned long years
afterwards. Perhaps he wept because
he knew that the earth and several
coaling-stations would one day be
seized by the Ohio man, and he was
born beyond the Panhandle. What
ever caused his grief, he kept it a
secret forever. He merely announced,
firmly and distinctly, to every living
soul on that boat, that he was crying,
but did not say what he was crying
about. He never told me; if he did, /
have forgotten it.-Robert j. Burdette,
in Lippincohs Magazine.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-02
He Didn't Have ANY.

A huckster from the market yester.
day hal ted a farmer on Grand River
avenue with:
"Hey, are you loaded with pro-
duce ?'
"Humph?" sneered the farmer as he
pulled up. eve don't grow any of that
stuff out our way"
"What do you grow?'
swell, we dabble more or less in
pro-juice, and I've got load of it
here. "
''That's given me hint" said po-
tato-peddler who had stopped his We
hicle to make dicker. ''Tve been
calling it 'proad-yuse' for the last
dozen years, and what must the critics
have thought of me!"-Detro1 Free
Press
St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-02
SEALING LETTERS.
Trio Methods Successfully Employed From
the Remotest Antiquity.

Tsu Methods Successfully Employed From
the Remotest Antiquity.
How were letters sealed before the
invention of gummed envelopes? In
one of the last numbers Of lie LlUre,
MI. S. Blondel has an interesting arti
Gle upon this subject, in which he de-
scribes all the methods of sealing that
have been successfully employed from
the remotest antiquity. The first seals
consisted of a ring that was affixed to
clay or bole. and later to chalk or c,cta
astdticG, mixture of pitch, wax and
plaster. The use Of wax did not begin
to become general till the Middle Ages.
Beeswax, rendered yellow by time,
was the first material used. Then
came sealing wax mixed with white
substance. Red wax began with Louis
VI, in Ills; and green wax made its
appearance about the year 1853.
In the thirteenth century, yellow,
brown. rose. black and blue were added
to the foregoing colors. Black wax is
rarity met with in the seals OF the
military religious orders.
Among the ancient. ring seals were
used not only. for sealing letters, but
also, as small locks were not common,
for sealing baskets and chests that con-
tanned valuable objects; and they were
even employed for scaling the doors of
houses and apartments.
Under the first empire. people began
to make waters, which were brought
from Italy by the soldiers and officers
of the French army These waters
were cut with punch out of a thin leaf
made of flour. Finally gummed enve-
lopcs gradually began to replace seal
ing wax and waters nearly everywhere.
The first envelopes, which were manu-
featured in England, date back to 1910.
The machine for folding them was in
vented in 1913. by Messrs. Edwin Hill
and Warren de la Rue, and in 1849 was
so improved by the latter that it was
capable of folding and cumming $500
envelopes per hour. Since 1850 the
annual production of envelopes has
been greatly increasing. and there are
now being daily manufactured in Paris
alone 100000.
AS regards the seals used by certain
famous individuals when the use of wax
was in vogue, lie Livre gives the fol-
lowing information:
Goethe, after his return from Italy.
almost always sealed his letters with an
antique head, such as that of Socrates,
Minerva or Leda. The astronomer La
lan's seal had q ship engraved upon it,
and Meyerbeer's had Tyre. with the
legend, always in tune" Victor
Hugo lad a very simple seal. At the
sale of his effects in 1852. Arsene Hous-
sage bought a seal with the initials v.
H. SO arranged that when inverted
they formed the cipher A. H.--LG SCI
ence en- F0niIle.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-02
A QUEER MARKET.
Proprietors and Patrons of the Petticoat
Lane and Rag Fair of Paris.

What Parsians call "Le Temple" is
e large market situated in the Rue du
Temple, at no great distance from the
Place tie la Republique. 1t is the Pet
ticoat Lane and Rag Fair of Paris.
There cast-off clothes are retailed at
prices within the means of the respect
able poor; and secondhand articles,
such MS shoes skillfully vamped, cheap
hardware, old scrap-iron and even the
refuse of the tables from hotels and
restaurants may be bought 'at the
lowest price for cash." The business
done must be considerable, for the
the market is a large one, and most of
the stalls are we'll filled, That the
occupation of the stall-keepess is pecu-
liarly profitable is sufficiently indicated
by the fact that it is almost wholly fol-
lowed by Jews and Jewesses. The
mysteries Of the old clothes trade prac-
ticed here are rigidly guarded from the
public ken. The most thrifty of house
wives would probably be indignant be-
yond expression were she to be initiated
into the secrets of the science of reviv-
ing fabrics. Garments condemned as
shabby, and sold for as many GEMS as
their prime cost in francs, are said
to undergo uncommon processes
of restoration. which enable deal
ers to palm them off as new upon
the unwary purchaser, or to sell
them at good profit to those who are
content to wear secondhand goods. A
man might be able to rig himself out
as completely and in as short time at
this market as at any "Moses" in the
most fashionable parts of the city. The
trying-on rooms are not numerous. but
St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-02
kARAiTE DOCTRINES.
The Beliefs of Peculiar Jewish Sect
Flourishing in Galicia.

The Beliefs of Peculiar Jewish Sect
Flourshing in Galicia.
The Slavonic novelist, NJ. Sacher-
Masoch, has recently given an interest
ing lecture to Paris audience on the
Jewish sects in Galicia, in the course of
which he described the Karaites, who
acknowledge only the first book of
Moses rs their religious guide, The
karaites, said the eminent Jewish
author, are the Jansenites of Judaism.
They base their beliefs ON the love of
the divine; they are virtuous for vir-
tues sake. Where reason and revela-
ton agree, they say, we accept them
Us two excellent things, but where they
disagree we must hold with revelation,
for if reason had been sufficient revela-
ton would have been superfuous. The
Karaites consider that it is not allowed
to discuss the fundamental bases of
revelation. Another of their precepts
is: '1f you can not do that which you
would like to do, you must be willing to
do what you cam The life of the
Karaites is very virtuous; they pray in
Hebrew, with bent heads; in the East
they never light a fire, and in Galicia.
where the climate is more rigorous,
they let Christians light it for them.
The sect numbers about forty thousand
in Galicia. One popularity by which
they are distinguished from all other
Jews is that they consider that COM
merce in goods which they themselves
have not produced to be illicit, for
which reason they are nearly all agri-
culturists or stewards. Until lately
they were exempt from military service,
but at present they are employed in the
ambulances. M. Sacher-Masoch states
on the authority of a historian that no
Karaite has been condemned in any law
court in Poland for the last four centu-
ries.- Chicago Times.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-02
Strong Hot Boiled Milk.

There is no better or healthier drink
than hot or warmed boiled milk. Even
in the best hotels it is sometimes diff
cult to get boiled milk. In restaurants
it is seldom given out without special
order. In many private houses the
article 10 practically unknown. In
many houses whore they pride them
selves Ga their good coffee only cream
is used in the mixture. Coffee with
cream is delicious, and the very color
it takes on as the thick yellow sub
stance drops down into it is a joy for
ever; but it is, alas! indigestible. be-
lieye that many Of the people who have
decided that they can not take coffee
would find themselves nourished and
strengthened, without injury, by equal
parts OF well made strong coffee and
hot boiled milk. Christian at Work.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-02

"A Fourth Ward young man writes
US that every time he plays the flute a
large rat comes forth to listen. Very
interesting; but what would he say to a
large delegation with clubs and things.
That would surprise him still MORE
Detroit Free Press.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-02
Had Been There Before.
"And do you doubt my love?''

"And do you doubt my love?" he
asked, passionately.
''No, George" she answered with
admirable poise, "but when you say
that the day you call me yours will
usher in an era of lifelong devotion and
tender solicitude, you pardon me,
dear-you put it on trife too thick.
You seem to forget, George, that I am .
Widow."-M T. sam.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-02

Wood County claims to produce
more gas than all the other counties in
Ohio; there are at present twenty-seven
wells in the county. Of these eighteen
wells are estimated to produce daily
1880, 900 cubic feet of gas.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-02

Does the man fall to the pave
ment, or does the pavement fly UP and
hit the man?" This question bothered
the brain OF Timothy Long, of Ware,
Mass, until he went down in the cellar
and hung himself. = Boston Herald.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-02

--"He's jounced' is the synonym for
mashed iE tue vocabulary of the day.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-29
WILLIAM O'BRIENo
He Closes ATS Mission in Canada and
Goes to New York.
ARRANGING FOR A DEMONSTRATION.

6e Closes Hfg Mission IN canada and
Goes to New York.
ARRANGING FOR A DEMONSTRATION.
New YORK, May 2S.-A committee rep
resenting the Central Labor Union, Dis
trIct Assembly No. 10, Knights of Labor
and the Union L. -rty, met last
evening and made final arrangements for
3 grand demonstration in way of parade
and q meeting at Union Square next
Tuesday evening in honor of William
O'BueE's return. The secretary received
dispatch from Mr.. O'Brien stating posi-
lively ne could address the meeting then,
and the committee say they will have
100000 men in line then, in the cause of
'1and restoration and industrial emsnci-
patton" One hundred Cinnamon are
expected TO parade.
HIS MISSION ENDED.
MONTREAL, May 28.-At the reception
rendered O'Brien by the Irish Society and
other society organizations last night, the
French Canadians Association pre-
dominated The torchlight procession
was a brilliant affair, headed by Irish
and French societies intermingled with
large body of citizens and other societies
and Populations from Ottawa, Quebec,
Kingston and Hamilton. A large body
of citizens came from Ottows. at least
5000 men carried torches as they fled
past st. Lawrence hall, on the balcony of
which O'Brien stood. On the principal
streets along the route the houses were
Illuminated by electric lights and fire.
works. Bunting and flags fosted
from many of the principal buildings
and cheers rent the air. O'Brien stood
on the upper gallery of Larins hotel, from
which the speech was made. Spread out
IN neighboriug streets were ST least
10000 persons. At the close of
the meeting resolutions de
n0unciDg LsnSdowne were passed
with enthusiasm. The crowd returned
to the hotel with strong body guard
surrounding O'Brien's carriage, At q
subsequent banquet O'Brien announced
the close Of his Canadian mission which
he declared successful.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-29
WASHINGTON NOTES.
TEXAS PENSIONS.

Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, May 2S.-1he following
Texas pensions were issued to-day:
James Deering, Lampasas; ". n. Fenly,
Pollock; Thomas j. Finley, Gozland; @.
E. Freeman, Fredericksburg; 81. G.
Fountain, Lampssss; Charles Gieseler,
Trinity; Robert Hall, COtulla.
INTERNAL REVENUE.
WASHINGTON, May 2S-Total collec-
tions OF internal revenue during the first
ten months of the fiscal year ending June
10 were So, 253,O 66, being $50, $50 less
than the collections during the CORE
spending period of the previous fiscal
wear. The above includes the tax on
oleomargarine, which amounted to
SG79, 5g2. The aggregate receipts for
April, 1887, were S525, 1873 greater than
receipts during the same mouth of 1886,
the increase being mainly on tobacco and
fermented liquors.
THE PRESIDENTS ORDER.
WASHINGTON, May 29.-All the eXecu-
tive departments will be closed Monday,
Decoration day, in pursuance Of an order
to that effect signed by the President be
fore his departure from Washington.
INTER STATE COMMERCE.
WASHINGTON, May IS. - The inter
state commerce commission has received
from the Street Cable Company of chi
cagO, by John Street, patentee, com
Paint against the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe, the Atlantic and Pacific, the
Burlington and Quincy, the Union Pacific,
the Northern Pacific, and the Denver and
Rio Grande, charging them with I'M
lawful discrimination in refusing to
permit the use of the compliments
cars for live stock over their
respective roads from one state or
through another, unless on the payment
of eXorbitant charges Of freight. The
complaint shows that it is the custom of
the railroad companies TO interchange
general traffic in cars without unloading
or making transfers Of the same, and to
permit lines of special cars owned by
other companies, corporations, private
parties and by shippers of special COM
modities which require cars of Especial con-
structiOn, 20 be operated in their general
business, allowing q reasonable COmpen-
sation therefor. This is charged as an
undue and unjust discrimination against
live stock shipments in favor of other
classes of freight. The complaint alleges
tnat in refusing 10 permit the use upon
their roads of the compliments cars, eX-
cept on thC "-ment Of eXorbitant rates,
the respondents have damaged the com
plainauL in he sum Of $500, 900, for
which an order OF compensation Is asked.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-29
An Intricate PnzzIe.

WASHINGTON, May 25.-There does not
appear to be clear understanding in the
commission as to the manner in which
the long and short haul clause is to be
ultimately construed. For instance, as
to the curious medley in the law in which
the phrase under "similar circumstances,
etc." occurs, one on the commissioners
has said
There does not seem to be anything to
find out about it, for it does not appear
to mean anything. There were two diff
ferent theories in the Democratic nation
al convention as to the tariff. The repre-
sentatives of these conflicting views met
on the common resolutions and each drew
a resolution which declared it's opinion
and the two were dOvetailed together.
That constituted the Democratic platform
So as to the Interstate commerce law.
Cullom represented one view, Reagan an
entirely different view. The two were
determined that there should be bill of
some sort in the last Congress-. They
put together the phrases which were sup
posed to represent their different ideas.
These joined phrases constitute the i'm
portant portion of the present law. What
does the clause mean? | do not know.
What did the trainers of it mean?
They don't know. CulIom, since
the bill has IA become law,
says that the collection of words mean
one thing; Reagan, since the law was
passed, says that the same jingle means
another thing, and the two definitions
are not to be reconciled. The courts
Will ultimately give them some coastruc-
ton, but they will have to guess ct the
meaning. There is no meaning in the
words. They represent compromise to
secure the passage Of a dill and have 20
further meaning.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-29

In Boston they tell good story of San
bOrn's dry wit, which hits of SIS well Ross
Corey, who also came from Maine little
after the other, but shortly fitted to New
York, where he very soon took on the airy
manners of the metropolis His old friend
Sanborn came over to see MIN after e
time, snd was received with the somewhat
gushing cordially rather characteristic
of your New York host. ''YOu Just come
in about O'Clock, Jim, and wen run
over to my house and have dinner, and
come back to the city for the theater."
Four came, and Sanborn, rather warm and
f&tigued with business errands. The
two started. They went on the horse
cars to ferry; on ferry TO Brooklyn;
on the horse cars again; then took stage
as far as they went. The New-Yorker
ssid they would walk After the Bos-
tonian had tugged along little way ne
pulled up short, and said, with g bit OF
gasp: "6ee here, don't you think it
would be shorter to go up to your
mothers house in Maine?"- Lewiston
Me- Journal
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-29
1DLAN1, RILEY c&c HEr.NG.
Proprietors and Managers

been employed in these feats of climbing
and repairing tall steeples in many parts
OF the country, and has been up so often
that he feels quite at home at the most
aerial heights. On Tuesday afternoon he
actually stood up on the dizzy pinnacle of
the cross, and at that height of 200 feet
bowed to the people below. During the
performance Of this perilous work the
crowd in the blocked street below stood
watching the performer with intense
anxiety. mistake at any point the
mere slipping of knot or sliding of q
rope might have. been instantly fatal.
At the point where Evans left the last
ladder inside the steeple to emerge upon
its exterior, there STe four windows at
equal distances on the four sides. The
first sight the people had of the climber
was when he stepped upon the outer sill
OF one Of those windows. He held one
rope, small but very strong, and had an
other COiled around his waist. The small
rope he got round the steeple on the out
side by throwing il from window TO win
dow, and when the ends met the first
window the climber after securely fasten-
ing them, stepped boldly out for the
ascent. This be accomplished by grasp
ing the rope firmly with both hands, his
arms spread wide apart, and pressing his
feet, on which he wore shoes of India
rubber, firmly against the steeple. Then
swsying 10 right and left he threw the
rope st each movement little higher and
so followed it up, taking in the slack as
he advanced. In half an hour he had
reached a foothold in the steeple ten feet
under the ball. Then from that point
he drew up q board and basket contain
ing hammer and nsils. He nailed the
board to the splre and drew up and fast
ened a ladder, which reached 20 the cross
over which he threw the rope, by which
ne drew himself up to the cross.
His bow from the summit of that sacred
emblem was the signal for hearty burst
of cheers from the crowd.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-29
In Ooncho County.


Correspondence of the Gazette.
PAINT Rock, TEX, May 25,-This place
was visited by severe storm yesterday
at O'Clock. One storehouse belonging
to R. L. Stringfellow was blown down
and the goods scattered for miles. The
damage is estimated at $1,000. The resi-
dence of Mr.. J. F. Cross was badly dam
aged. Mr.. J E. Turner'S dwelling was
blown eight feet from the foundation.
Several other dwellings had doors and
windows blown out. Fortunately, no one
was hurt.
The north bound stage from Paint Rock
to Ballinger was blown over, throwing
the driver out, and as he attempted to
rise he was struck by the top of the hack
and felled to the ground, when the horses
became frightened and ran away. The
driver then gathered up the mail, went to
ranch, borrowed horse and came
back to town, where another team was
procured and the mail started again obout
midnight. The rain was light here, but
few miles east it was very heavy.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-29
AUSTIN.
Drouth Sufferers ReIieved-A Grand Marct
Dedicated to Governor Ross.

Drouth Sufferers ReIieved-A Grand March
Dedicated to Governor Ross.
Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX, May ga receipt for
Sl358 from W. II. Smith of Atascosa
county came to Major Holmes, private
secretary of Governor Ross, to-day. The
money was sent for the benefit of the
drouth sufferers. MIR. Smith writes that
while the suffering in Atascosa has been
exaggerated it has been bad enough.
Tax Collector Simms of Shelby county
settled with the state to-day.
Attorney General Hogg to-day ap-
proved $4,000 for the per cent. jail
bonds for KneX county.
Joe E. King OF Waco has composed q
grand march and dedicated it to Governor
Ross. 1t is said a committee will be ap-
pointed to examine into the merits OF the
piece.
The school census of Anderson county
shows white children 1854, ColOred 1913;
total 1888, decrease.
The comptroller to-day awarded con-
tracts 20 bidders for furnishing supplies
to the different asylums as follows: John
Bremond Mexican, Elders & Co., Nelson,
Davis & Co., John Orr, ". B. Smith,
WaylGnd & Criser aud w. d. Sheehan, sill
dealers of Austin.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-29
"Squ idRHIum. -
JhIcagO HeIAiu.

Among circus and theatrical people
an admission ticket is called a 'squidge,'"
said man at Forepsugh's circus last
week. "The origin Of this expression
goes back many years. Along in the '60's
negro boy applied for admission ata cir
Gus IN one of the southern towns. He
had neither money nor tickets. The door
tender stopped the lad at the entrance
and told him he could not get into the
tent unless he had money or it's equiva-
lent. The poor boy ran crying to his pa
rents, who asked him why ne was not at
the circus. With & sob and face wet
with tears the lad blurted out that ne
couldn't get in until he got some money
or 'squIdgulum.' The man st the tent
door was very much amused when the
boys tale was told to him, and ever alter
that ticket has been known among the
boys as q 'squidge' or 'squldgulum.'
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-29
Shot Down In His FiAId

Special to the Gazette.
COLEMAN, TEX, May 28.-William
Simmons, who lives down in the southern
part of the county, while blowing IN his
field was shot and killed last Monday
evening by unknown parties. Suspicion
attaches to one John Griffith, with whom
Simmons had difficulty sOme time ago,
and who was seen the dsy OF the killing
near Simmons farm and who suddenly
disappeared when the murder was dis
covered. Officers are searching for the
murderer.